The life changing moments

This past week I learned that a truly wonderful person left this planet. She was a kind hearted who led her family through good times and bad.

I have had a bit of a writer’s block lately. I am going through a little bit of a transition myself.

The news couldn’t be more interesting. Donald Trump tweeting about FBI raids on his lawyer’s office due to a porn star scandal. How salacious can you get! A nude protester interrupting Bill Cosby’s trial! Mark Zuckerberg himself appearing before Congress to testify about giving away our secrets to third party companies and Russians! Disasters in the weather world! Major motion pictures! Winter storms!

And maybe it is just information overload.

I opened this post with a brief note about a friend, Kim, who passed away this week. When I met her my life was in a different place. Just after high school and a whole set of different people in my life than what exists now.

Seven year cycles.

There is a theory and belief among some that every seven years, your Chakra changes.

Seven seems to be the magic number. The time when your cells change. The time when your mind and spirit may as well.
0-7 Years – 7-14 Years – 14-21 Years – 21-28 Years – 28-35 Years – 35-42 Years – 42-49 Years – 49-56 Years – 56-63 Years – 63-70 Years – 70-77 Years – 77-84 Years

The period I am in now seems accurate:

From the thirty-fifth to the forty-second year, depending upon one’s personality and what one’s circumstances allow, one begins to feel a new restlessness. In some degree a desire to share whatever one has gained through life with others comes to the surface.

Thus we find many successful business men building libraries, or aiding colleges and the arts at this period in their life. What has been developed or realised can be taken to greater subtlety during this period. This is almost like unfolding something, perhaps similar to the way a flower unfolds a bud that has been developing in earlier phases of its growth. This is when we reassess the results of what we are doing externally in our life. Our relationships, careers, habits and the ways we interact are all put under scrutiny and modified or changed. It’s a time of facing up to what does and what doesn’t satisfy us.

You may reach heights or realisation and creativity not touched previously. The profound breakthrough of ones innate genius that emerges around this time will no doubt be expressed in some degree. However, whatever is attained or realised will be enlarged and synthesised in later periods.

Perhaps this is why the writer’s block is coming to fruition. The culmination of a change.. Our relationships, careers, habits and the ways we interact are all put under scrutiny and modified or changed. It’s a time of facing up to what does and what doesn’t satisfy us.

Indeed it exist like that.. a time when, in this seven year cycle, a mall indeed is also being taken away from our very existence……memories written on walls that now crashed down.


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As the seven year cycle evolves…

Cosby show

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A topless protester with “Women’s Lives Matters” written on her body in red ink charged at Bill Cosby Monday as he walked into a suburban Philadelphia courthouse for the start of his sexual assault retrial.

The woman jumped over a barricade and launched toward Cosby but was intercepted by sheriff’s deputies. She was taken into custody and led away in handcuffs.

Trump tower fire

Ominous signs in ominous times ..

The person who died was a resident of the building’s 50th floor who had been taken to the hospital in critical condition, department spokeswoman Angelica Conroy told CNN.
The victim was a 67-year-old man who was unconscious and unresponsive when firefighters pulled him out, the New York Police Department said, adding the medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death.
The fire was contained to the 50th floor of the tower, located on Fifth Avenue in New York. It was ruled under control around 9 p.m., about two hours after it was originally reported, the FDNY said in a tweet.

SATURDAY APRIL 7 2018

As part of its “media monitoring,” the DHS seeks to track more than 290,000 global news sources as well as social media in over 100 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian, for instant translation into English…

THAT ESCALATED: On Monday Trump tweeted about the border.. on Friday he sent the military.

A South Carolina congressman pulled out his own loaded handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday to make a point that guns are dangerous only in the hands of criminals. Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman placed the .38-caliber gun on a table during the “coffee with constituents” meeting at a Rock Hill restaurant, news outlets reported. .. he went on to say he is “not going to be a Gabby Giffords”..

Bill Maher defends Laura Ingraham in face of Hogg’s call for boycotting her show..

FEDS seize Backpage.com..

All the Facebook scandals being tracked by Forbes..

ohnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $37 million in the case of a man who said he got cancer from the company’s baby powder, which he believes contained talc laced with asbestos…

#MeToo hits the Breakfast Club: Molly Ringwald “shocked” now by re-watching the film..

QUIET PLACE called most effective horror movie in years..

DAILY BEAST reviews the ENDLESS

NICK SHAGER WRITES,

The Endless is, in one sense, about a crazy UFO sex cult situated in rural California. It’s also, however, a rumination on rebellion, the cyclicality of life, and the dangers of becoming trapped in corrosive, repetitive patterns of thought and behavior. Moreover, it functions as an intricate portrait of the ties that bind siblings, and the way those familial bonds can both hold us back—from finding ourselves, and a place in this world that we can call home—and set us free.
And it also features a demon god that may or may not be malevolent.

Trump will skip the White House correspondents dinner for the second year

MORE..

“The White House has informed us that the president does not plan to participate in this year’s dinner but that he will actively encourage members of the executive branch to attend,” Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said in a statement on Friday.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, plans to appear in Mr. Trump’s stead.

BACKPAGE.COM IS NOPAGE..

Federal law enforcement agencies have seized Backpage.com, a controversial classified-ads website known for its numerous sex-related postings.

“Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized,” said a large notice plastered on the site. The action was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Internal Revenue Service and included participation from state authorities.

Backpage, already the subject of multiple criminal probes, has become a lightning rod for critics of websites accused of turning a blind eye to sex trafficking. It has galvanized lawmakers to pass a law limiting the immunity of websites for the actions of their users.

FAMILY REUNION! MENENDEZ BROTHERS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN

For the first time in more than two decades, the Menendez brothers are back in the same place — a housing unit at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility outside San Diego, where the inmates are “able to interact with one another as they pursue rehabilitation opportunities,” corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton told The Washington Post.

Lyle, now 50, was transferred in February to the prison, where his brother had been for years, Thornton said. Then on Wednesday, she said, Erik, 47, was moved into the same housing unit at the prison where his brother is held.

It has been nearly 30 years since the Menendezes’ lives unraveled on a Sunday night in August 1989.

Authorities said the two brothers had bought two 12-gauge shotguns and two movie tickets for “Licence to Kill” — their alibi, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

Police said the brothers opened fire on their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, as the couple watched TV in the library in their Beverly Hills home…
The crime would go on to become a media feeding frenzy and global sensation as the Reagan era ended and the 1990s began..

Thirsty Thursday news roundup. All the lunacy under the spring sun

Just another day in the world at large..

A day when an award winner dropped dead on stage after singing and dancing.. Vishnu Pandey, 53, had a heart attack on stage seconds after being filmed dancing along to a popular Bollywood music tune – and looking happy to win..

A day when we found out that not only is Facebook reading your private messages but Also trying to gain information about your private medical records. Everything is not enough for ZUCK..

A day when much of Southern California felt a 5.3 tremor.. According to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 35.4 miles southwest of Channel Islands Beach. The quake’s preliminary depth was 10.4 miles. Los Angeles county felt it..

A day when Donald Trump warned the nation of a rape epidemic! The PRESIDENT …President.. Said: “They’re not putting their good ones,” Trump said. “And remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower when I opened. Everybody said, ‘Oh, he was so tough.’ And I used the word ‘rape.’ And yesterday it came out where, this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They don’t want to mention that”

Yes it’s been a day.

Other news worth nothing from this fine Thirsty Thursday:

here were no signs of foul play in the death of a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist who likely drowned, officials said Thursday. that said.. people in the SMILEY FACE conspiracy circles are going wild..

Movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since its rulers began enforcing ultraconservative religious laws in the early 1980s, but that’s set to end on April 18 with a gala premiere of Black Panther at a new AMC movie theater in Riyadh..In addition to lifting the restrictions on movies and public concerts, the prince has touted his reforms of Saudi Arabia’s repressive gender laws: Women will finally be allowed to drive and hold an increasing number of jobs

And now that SAUDI is opening up to the early 20th century, Time Warner is eyeing the nation! Time-Warner wants to bring more of its brands to Saudi Arabia, a top network executive told Arab News after a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman..

Forbes is wondering why we just found out that 2 billion Facebook users had their data harvested.. But those with logic over the past decade already knew this. The “conspiracy theorists” among us were right. Facebook status updates done with tin foil hats were best in hindsight..

MEANWHILE at Google… It is offering its resources to the US Department of Defense for Project Maven, a research initiative to develop computer vision algorithms that can analyze drone footage. In response, more than 3,100 Google employees have signed a letter urging Google CEO Sundar Pichai to reevaluate the company’s involvement, as “Google should not be in the business of war,” as reported by The New York Times. Some employees are demanding a pull-out!

Don’t be evil.
They say..

Not being evil at all, but creative, this is worth noting: Scientists have grown veggies in Antarctica WITHOUT SUNLIGHT OR SOIL! .. no really. Real news here. Working out of a shipping container-sized lab in an otherwise barren snowscape, the team gathered about 8 pounds of produce from their first yield, the AP reports, including herbs, lettuce, arugula, and red radishes…

Scientists at NASA want to send drone bees to Mars! Again, real news: Engineers are developing swarms of robotic ‘bees’ that can hover above the Martian surface, collecting data and communicating with a mobile exploration base. It’s bio-inspired engineering at its finest…

Anyone in the Northeast driving will realize how many potholes have developed after this cold and snowy winter.. but in the galaxy we inhabit, black holes abound! Chuck Hailey has had the center of the Milky Way hanging in his office at Columbia University. The picture, pinned above his desk, shows a bright orange and yellow blob—the glow of cosmic gas as it gets devoured by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy..

In the world of horror..
The hyped new horror film ‘Upgrade’ from Get Out’s producers looks like a right ol’ gore fest

QUITE PLACE a terrifying movie..

BEASTS AT THE BOX OFFICE: HORROR ANTHOLOGY REFUSES TO DIE..

The best horror film in years released.

Best horror right now on NETFLIX..

STRANGER THINGS CREATORS DENY STEALING IDEAS..

Duffer Brothers hit by a lawsuit..